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Meeting Held About Lake Anne Revitalization
From the Observer
By Erick Soricelli
Nov. 26, 2004

Hunter Mill District Supervisor Cathy Hudgins hosted a meeting Nov. 16 at Reston Community Center at Lake Anne on the revitalization of the village center, one of Reston's first developments.

Hudgins was joined by Reston founder Robert E. Simon Jr., and Jim Prost, a principal of Basile Baumann Prost & Associates, Inc., an Annapolis, Md.-based consulting firm selected by Fairfax County to assess the needs and possibilities for revitalizing the area.

"We're just in the middle of this study," Prost said, adding that a development program has not been put together and talks with Lake Anne merchants have yet to take place.

Early ideas determined from the study include upper-level residential development, multilevel parking with retail and service offices at the ground level, and creating restaurant and event themes.

The study areas under consideration for revitalization include the one-third of a mile radius around Lake Anne where people can walk, and the area that is a three to five minute drive from Lake Anne.

When the Lake Anne Village Center opened in 1965, Simon said he wanted a village center that would "gather people together" in an area surrounded by cafes and restaurants.

Hudgins described the meeting as a "process piece" and said a full revitalization report would be finished in the next month. "We'll be back to the community after December," she said, "in the January-February timeframe."

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